Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Year!!! Are you ready to start our A to Z Memory Verse Challenge 2012?! Woo Hoo!

***In case you missed the details, you can catch up here! Basically, I'll be sharing a new verse every other week (A to Z style) through December 17th, 2012. I also have lots of fun prizes to share each week with Memory Verse Challenge participants!

* Purchase a spiral index card holder at your local office store, Walgreens, etc.. Write all 26 verses for 2012 in this spiral.* For families, you may want to print off a letter A (here) on colored cardstock. Write the verse on the "A", and hang it on your refrigerator.

**Feel free to share your favorite tips, ideas, even pictures. I'd love to share your suggestions and/or link to you in the weeks to come!

Questions to Ponder/Discussion Ideas~* What does this verse mean to me? to our family?? Spend time reflecting, journaling, praying, and discussing how Joshua 24:15 can help shape you and your family in the New Year.* What are ways you can serve the Lord in 2012? In your home? School? Neighborhood? Community? World?* Is there anything getting in the way of serving the Lord? (busy-ness, "screen time", unbelief, etc..). Pray and ask God that He would use you and your family in a special way this week to serve Him!Giveaways ~ Thanks to the extreme generosity of Verseability, my Verse Challenge Sponsor, I am thrilled to share TONS of great GIVEAWAYS with you!

* Bloggers ~ To any blogger who shares this A to Z challenge on his/her blog, you will receive a free Verseability Versepack ($7.00 value, plus free s/h). (Bloggers, please see notes in P.S. below.)

P.S. To help get us off to a great start, Verseability has made a custom A-Z Versepack that contains all 26 of the verses for the year. The Versepacks are business card sized and perfect for carrying in your purse or pocket and are available for a special price of $ 5.00, plus shipping. You can order them by e-mailing: darlenedykstra@yahoo.com. Be sure to mention *She Sparkles* to get the special rate.

(I encourage you to check out the Verseability website to see the personalized Versebooks and Versepacks available, too. Great gifts for any occasion! Note: the A-Z Versepacks are not listed on the website).P.P.S. Bloggers ~ Thanks so much for sharing the *She Sparkles* Challenge on your blog. Please include the *She Sparkles* Scripture Memory Verse Challenge button on your post. (The button with embedding code is listed on my sidebar). Once you've written your post, please send your mailing information, as well as a link to your post, to Darlene Dykstra, the founder of Verseability atdarlenedykstra@yahoo.com. Darlene will be sending out your versepack to you! Thanks so much! :) Disclosure: I was not provided with any financial compensation for this giveaway, and as always, all opinions are mine.

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Really looking forward to doing this with my family this year! Just found your blog!Christine

Cindy this is so very exciting!! I want to do the challenge so I am better able to recall Gods word when I am out and about so I can worship His spontaneously through His word without a Bible in my lap!! I have shared your link on my blog and I already follow and subsribe to you :) I am not a tweeter yet...I might need lessonswww.justfollowtheword.blogspot.com justfollowtheword@gmail.com

Excited to join in again! We're doing the challenge as a family- feel very led to make sure our boys have God's Word hidden in their heart and ready on their lips!. Cindy, thank you for all your effort! {hugs}Lindsay M.

Excited to join in again! We're going to the challenge as a family- I am feeling very led to make sure the boys (especially) have God's Word hidden in their hearts and ready on their lips. Cindy, thank you for all your effort! {hugs}- Lindsay M.

I am excited to start this journey. I love this verse. I wear a charm that is a house with this scripture referenced and have this verse already memorized. I am excited to teach it to my kids. Thanks for doing this Cindy.

Well I did get up EARLY to post this but I guess it ended up in cyber space. Man I could have slept in:)

Rise and Shine it's a NEW YEAR! Happy New Year Cindy!! The reason I have decided to participate is multiple, not just one reason. First, This warrior NEEDS some tools. Second, what a perfect way to spend quality family time. Third, it's a way to stay in and to be constantly thinking about the word. Plus you have others in the house keeping you accountable...challenging you. Fourth, for 6 years I worked on an Alzheimer unit and the resounding thing that people were always left with was their ability to recall hymns and scripture, when all else seemed to have left them. This brings new meaning to Hebrew 13:5 I need something (God and His word) that will not leave me even when all I know has. Looking forward to the A-Z challenge!

My little girl is really struggling with learning to visually identify the letters of the alphabet after having heard spanish only her first year of life and then multiple ear infections. So, I am hoping to work with her each week with a letter and want the verse to be even more importantly etched on her heart. (Also on the hearts of my boys and myself and husband). THANKS!!!

I've been been a HUGE fan of your blog for a while now. I've never comment on your blog before though. I wanna draw closer to the Lord in 2012. I will be sharing your great idea on my blog www.fleisherfamilyfun.blogspot.comKeep up the great work! God bless

I haven't memorized scripture since I was a child in Sunday School but I know how important it is and would like to do this with my family. I'm planning to put the verses on a key ring so we can have them with us "on the go" or at school.

I will be joining in on the memory fun so that I can be deeper in the word and continue to sparkle in His eyes. (I am already a follower and subscriber but will be sharing the biweekly verse and blog update on facebook)

Why have you've decided to participate in this A to Z Memory Verse Challenge?

For a while now learning scripture has been on my heart and so I am going to continue trying to do so. I have done it with Beth Moore-I did miss the last 2 weeks and well I am just not going to beat myself up about it. That is one of my New Year changes I am making.

I and my family (hoping they participate too) need more of the Word in our minds, hearts, and daily lives. I know the Word has amazing power and we need that in this crazy world as we desire to walk with the Lord. Thanks so much for doing this! Jenny C. Orosco99@juno.com

I am taking on the challenge of the A to Z Bible memory- along with my nephews and nieces! This should be fun! Praying God richly blesses you- thank you for being such a blessing to me!! Rhoda- Enterprise AL

i have seen the power of prayer and miracles in 2011 as i have advocated for orphans and now i want the word IN ME! I had decided to do this anyway but much better to do it with friends!i invite all she sparkles participants over to theflight platform janexxxx

Hi Cindy I discovered your challenge via another blog. I have participated in writing posts from A-Z before. So I was intrigued by your challenge to learn scriptures from A-Z. It's my goal to hide more of His Word in my heart. bnredeemed {at} gmail {dot} com

I tried to do Beth Moore's Scripture memory last year, and it fizzled out (partly because I chose too long of passages, partly because of laziness). This sounds fun and doable for our whole family - including our four little ones. I am convinced that Scripture memory is SO SO SO important to living a godly life. Thanks for doing this! (And by the way, I'm going to post it on my blog as well!)

I came across your blog while "looking" for creative ways to study and ponder the scriptures and bring them to life more in my life. I am looking forward to having the challenge of first of all memorizing the scripture and then going the extra step of pondering the scripture daily as to how it applies to me, my family, and our lives. Thanks for the great idea!!Jan Everette

My bride and I were just talking about memorizing scripture as a family. She found your site and told me about it. Seems like a very doable plan. Looking forward to having more of God's word with us wherever we are. Thanks for putting this together. The Strange's from VA.

I know that memorizing scripture is important for many reasons- It keeps our mind on God's word, it keeps our mind sharp, it helps us know how to react or what to say to others, and makes it tougher for satan to get in our head...but I need this challenge to motivate me to do it. - thank you.

This is great!!! I love it! I'm joining in because one of my goals this year (an ongoing one) is to keep my faith alive daily with Bible study (memorizing scripture), prayer, and worship. Thanks for hosting this!my site is: http://tyreanswritingspot.blogspot.com/

You are a blessing Cindy and I praise God for the your talents, skills, and gifts that he has given to you to share with all of us. I turned 50 years old on New Years Day and I have been praying about new beginnings and routines in my live. Your challenge is a great way for me to memorize scripture and your blog is a blessing with all your encouraging words along with a structured format to keep me focused and inspired. May God continue to pour his blessings onto you and your family in the New Year.

Awesome challenge, Cindy! I am believing that many people will be moved closer to Christ with God's Word written on their hearts. I pray that God pours out His blessings on you this year. I pray that your influence manifest itself in great abundance, and that many, many women are filled with God's love, peace and joy because of your faithfulness!

I am so excited about your Scripture Memory Verse Challenge! Thank you so much for doing this. You are helping to simplify a much needed daily routine in my life (scripture memorization), and I thank you once again for serving me and my life in this capacity. I am coupling your scripture memorization challenge with reading through the Bible in 90 Days (for the second time) and I am truly blessed for both opportunities to strengthen my walk with the Lord.

Thank you for the additional giveaways as well!!! What a blessing! I subscribe to your blog and I thoroughly enjoy your posts.

Abundant blessings to all participants on our Scripture Memorization journey together. May God richly bless each one of you!!

Cindy, I love this! I've been working at memorizing the WORD with the women on Thursday mornings. I plan to take the A-Z Bible memory to them starting this Thursday! We will have to work ahead in order to accommodate summer break. Thanks for the challenge!!!

Just sneaking in before the deadline!! I am participating for the accountability this will give me. I also plan to have my kids memorize along with me. We memorize long scripture passages together, but rarely just a verse here and there. Thanks, Cindy!

I've always wanted to memorize scripture. I tried it last year with Beth Moore but I got distracted and found it hard to always find a new verse. Hopefully, I can do this with the help of you already providing the verses. Looking forward to the year of memorization.

I did the Beth Moore Scripture Memory Verse Challenge but still need to work on a few of those verses. I hope to be able to add these 26 to the ones I have already started learning. Thanks for doing this!

I'm sooooooo excited to start this! Instead of putting the verse on a note card, I typed it into my phone (it's one less thing to keep track of). I know this will help me strengthen my faith, thank you for inspiring and sharing your sparkle!

I follow your blog and have decided to join in the challenge this year. I LOVE the idea of writing with a dry erase marker on my mirror...This year I want to store God's word in my heart more faithfully and this just might be the best idea I have seen in a long time. I am excited to join you!

I am so happy the Lord led me to this blog and this challenge. I am a school teacher who has gotten to caught up in the busy of life and am excited about this challenge and know it will help with my walk with the Lord:)

I look forward to doing this with my daughter because she helps to keep me accountable. This year doing the same verse we can practice together. I joined your bog and loved the past posts I read. Looking forward to that also! Thank you! MSO. ;)

I am doing your scripture challenge because I want to "sparkle," just like you.....And I find this to be a fun and creative way to memorize scripture. I'm excited about following your blog through e-mail and on facebook. I think I'm all subscribed and ready to go.

I am a little late, but it's never too late to learn about our Lord!Thanks for doing this and I will subscribe, etc so I can help myself and my family dig in just a little deeper this year!God Bless - and again, THANK YOU!

I am so thrilled that I have found you and your blog! This challenge sounds so wonderful! I am joining this challenge to help become closer in my walk with the Lord. Thank you for doing this!Hollybearcom1000@msn.com